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Obit: "Smilin' Jack Smith, host of "You Asked For It", @ 92

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(From the "L-A Times")

"Smiling" Jack Smith, a singer and recording artist who had his own radio show in the 1940s and early '50s and later took over as host of the popular "You Asked for It" TV show, has died. He was 92.

Smith, who launched his singing career at the Cocoanut Grove in the early 1930s, may be best remembered for "You Asked for It."
He took over as host of the ABC series for its final season in 1958, replacing Art Baker, creator of the show, which first aired in 1950.
"You Asked for It" invited viewers to send in suggestions for unusual things that they wanted to see on the air.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-smith10jul10,1,655540.story?coll=la-news-obituaries
 
Smith also hosted "You Asked For It" in the early 1970s.
When the show was revived again, in 1981 with Rich Little
as host, Smith was on hand to narrate clips from the older
shows. In the 1982-83 season, he was host of the show.

Smith was also the original host of "Place The Face" in 1953
(which Bill Cullen later hosted), and "Love Story" in 1955 (the
show "As The World Turns" replaced in April 1956). I remember
that he sometimes substituted for Jack Bailey on "Queen For A
Day" as well.
 
Jack Smith also hosted the Toledo Cerebral Palsy Telethon in 1975 I believe it was. I was at the telethon that year. It wasn't as well known as the MDA telethon because we were just broadcast locally, not nationally.
 
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